"My pen isn't a very good one, and my paper will not bear being scratched so I must be content with the sketch above to convey to you some idea of the lady whom the bountiful Gods have sent to me for a wife...The lady is Miss Waugh -- the dear sister of Mrs. [Thomas] Woolner. I have known her some six or seven years. Her father is a chemist in Regent St....he is as fine and true a gentleman as I ever met -- and the daughter, you shall say, is one of the truest and noblest ladies you ever saw..."

Fanny Waugh was a great-aunt of Evelyn Waugh (who wrote about and was always intensely interested in the Pre-Raphaelites); after her untimely death, Hunt married her younger sister Edith. The artist Michael Halliday shared a studio for a time with Holman Hunt (see Christopher Woods, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, p. 198). Interestingly, his best known painting is "The Measure for the Wedding Ring" (1855), at one time in the collection of Evelyn Waugh.